GMA Dove Award for Vocalist of the Year information
Steven Curtis Chapman won seven Male Vocalist of Years awards between 1990 and 2001.
The Gospel Music Association (GMA) Dove Awards are presented annually by the Gospel Music Association for outstanding achievements in the Christian music industry. The awards for Male and Female Vocalist of the Year Award has been awarded every year that the GMA has given the awards since 1969.[1]
Eighteen different men and seventeen different women have won the award in forty-three years. James Blackwood won seven of the first eight (1969–1970, 1972–1975, 1977) Male Vocalist of the Year awards and is tied for the most with Steven Curtis Chapman (1990–1991, 1995, 1997–1998, 2000–2001). Sandi Patty has the most Vocalist of Year awards overall with eleven (1982–1992).[2] Other multiple award winners include Natalie Grant (five), Sue Chenault Dodge (three), Michael English (three), Larnelle Harris (three), Russ Taff (three), Chris Tomlin (three), Twila Paris (three), Francesca Battistelli (two), Jeremy Camp (two), Cynthia Clawson (two), Steve Green (two), Brandon Heath (two), Dallas Holm (two), Nicole C. Mullen (two), Nichole Nordeman (two), Evie (two), Jaci Velasquez (two), and Cece Winans (two). Chapman's seventh and most recent Vocalist of the Year award in 2001 came eleven years after his first in 1990—the longest span between awards. In the awards forty-three year history, only in 1969, 1976, 1996, 1999, 2002, and 2006, did both the male and female award winners win for the first time in the same year. The most recent winners were Jason Crabb and Grant; it was Crabb's first win.
GMA officials rescinded the Dove Awards of 1971 due to solicitation of votes by the James Blackwood family. James Blackwood and Sue Chenault would have won the male and female vocalist of the year awards, respectively. If the awards had not been removed, Blackwood would have had the most male vocalist of the year awards with eight.[3] The only other year in which there were no awards was in 1979 when they were moved from October to April.[4]
^"Dove Awards History". GMA Dove Awards. Gospel Music Association. Archived from the original on November 14, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
^"Vestal Goodman, Sandi Patty, Al Green named to Hall of Fame". Baptist Press. Southern Baptist Convention. January 8, 2004. Archived from the original on January 16, 2007. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
^"Gospel Music Association Invalidates 1971 Dove Awards". Eugene Register-Guard. Associated Press. October 27, 1971. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
^Cusic, Don (2010). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music: Pop, Rock, and Worship. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Publishing Group/ABC-CLIO. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-313-34425-1.
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